Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee blasted the White House for threatening to veto a bill the House of Representatives passed last week that would require the heads of the nation’s key national security agencies to certify that each Syrian and Iraqi refugee who resettles in the United States wouldn’t pose a threat to the country. Nati HarnikAP

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee blasted the White House for threatening to veto a bill the House of Representatives passed last week that would require the heads of the nation’s key national security agencies to certify that each Syrian and Iraqi refugee who resettles in the United States wouldn’t pose a threat to the country. Nati HarnikAP

Huckabee: Obama ‘probably’ wants Americans to learn Koran verses

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee mocked the Obama administration’s anti-terrorism policy Monday in the wake of last week’s terrorist attack in Mali, saying the White House would rather espouse having Americans “memorize Koran verses” than deal with the problem head-on.

The former Arkansas Republican governor, in an op-ed piece for FoxNews.com, asked, “Why does the Obama administration express more outrage at conservatives than at radical Islamic terrorists?”

“President Obama seems more interested in protecting the reputation of Islam than protecting the American people,” Huckabee wrote.

He added: “After this attack in West Africa, Obama’s new domestic terrorism plan probably requires Americans to memorize Koran verses.”

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Huckabee blasted the White House for threatening to veto a bill the House of Representatives passed last week that would require the heads of the nation’s key national security agencies to certify that each Syrian and Iraqi refugee who resettles in the United States doesn’t pose a threat to the country.

The House acted after terrorist attacks in Paris killed at least 129 people. One of the alleged suspected reportedly entered Europe posing as a Syrian refugee.

“Obama’s politically-correct, press release foreign policy is a complete disaster, and it shouldn’t take another Paris or Mali for the cartoonish clowns in the administration to wake-up,” Huckabee wrote in the Fox News.com op-ed.